Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Access Points
Biography
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: Bolt Family Papers,
Date (inclusive): c1880-1973
Collection number: Mss159
Creator:
Robert B. Bolt
Extent: 44.5 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections
Shelf location: For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language: English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Bolt Family Papers, Mss159, Holt-Atherton
Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
Access Points
personal name
Bolt, Richard Arthur (1880-1959)
personal name
Bolt, Beatrice French (1881-1974)
personal name
Bolt family
corporate name
Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio)
corporate name
University of California, Berkeley
corporate name
Tsing Hua College (Beijing, China)
corporate name
Cleveland (Ohio). Department of Public Health
corporate name
Johns Hopkins University
subject
Public health education -Ohio -Cleveland
subject
Public health education -California -Berkeley
subject
Public health -Germany
subject
Public health -China
subject
Community health services -Ohio -Cleveland
subject
Public health -United States
subject
Public health administration
subject
Public health -Evaluation
subject
Public health advisory groups
subject
Public health personnel -Ohio -Cleveland
subject
Earthquakes -California -Photographs
subject
China -Description and travel
subject
Germany -Description and travel
subject
Cleveland (Ohio) -Social life and customs
subject
Berkeley (Calif.) -Social life and customs
subject
China -Pictorial works
subject
California -Pictorial works
Biography
The scion of this distinguished family, Dr. Richard Arthur Bolt
(1880-1959), was an authority on child health care. Bolt was Medical Director
of the U.S. Indemnity (Tsing Hua) College, Beijing (1911-1916); Chief of the
Bureau of Child Hygiene, Cleveland (Ohio) Department of Public Health
(1917-1918); Instructor, Case Western Reserve University (1916-1920); Lecturer,
Johns Hopkins University (1920-1925); Consultant to the U.S. Children's Bureau
(1924-1937); Assistant Professor, University of California (1925-1929);
Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University (1929-1945); and, Lecturer
in Maternal and Child Health, University of California (1945-1948). Bolt
studied child health in Germany (1933) and was a member of the White House
Conference on Children (1939). He was author of numerous monographs on public
health topics. On domestic and overseas trips Dr. Bolt took many photographs
that he later used to illustrate public and academic lectures.
Bolt's wife, Beatrice French Bolt (1881-1974), a graduate of Stanford
University (1905), was a socialite with many friends in the fields of medicine
and literature. A gracious hostess, whose home became a gathering place for
people of prominence, Mrs. Bolt was also a meticulous diarist and record
keeper. She accompanied her husband to China, Germany and elsewhere.The Bolts
had four children: Elizabeth, Robert, Marion Jane and Richard Henry.
Scope and Content
The Bolt Family Papers are arranged in seven series. Series I consists
of biographical materials, including sixteen boxes of family diaries
(1893-1973); Series II contains family and business correspondence (1887-1957);
Series III consists of eleven Bolt family scrapbooks(1913-1952); Series IV
consists of the writings of Richard Arthur Bolt (1900-1960), while Series V
contains Bolt Family memorabilia; Series VI contains various public health
writings not by Dr. Bolt; and Series VII contains the family's substantial
photograph collections, which include 17 boxes of images of China, Japan and
Korea (1911-1916), Germany, Austria and Hungary (1933), as well as California
(1899-1904) and elsewhere.
No online items
